Research Centers

Center for Computation & the Brain

The Center for Computation and the Brain is dedicated to advancing our understanding of cognition and intelligence through the use of models of neural computation and human cognition as well as the design of artificial intelligence systems.

Center for Language Sciences

The Center for Language Sciences supports interdisciplinary research in natural language through colloquia, support for graduate students and sponsorship of topical workshops on topics related psycholinguistics, especially language processing and language acquisition, linguistics, and computational linguistics.

Center for Visual Science

The Center for Visual Science brings together 29 research laboratories throughout the University of Rochester that employ many approaches including optics, physiology, computation, and psychophysics to elucidate the mechanisms of vision.

Multi-University Research Group (MURI) on Complex Learning

The purpose of the Multi-University Research Group (MURI) on Complex Learning is to characterize how the adaptive plasticity of the adult brain can be optimized to accelerate the acquisition of new skills and their transfer to new situations.

Music Cognition at Eastman/UR

Music Cognition at Eastman/UR is an interdisciplinary field concerned with applying the experimental, computational, and neurological methods of cognitive science to musical issues and problems -- is an active area of research at Rochester that unites faculty and students from the Eastman School of Music with BCS through symposia held four times yearly, cross-listed music cognition courses, interdepartmental dissertation committees, and collaborative research that spans the two disciplines. These departments are also founding members of the Music and Sound Initiative, which sponsors interdisciplinary academic programs, courses, and research projects; see http://www.rochester.edu/college/mas/.

Rochester Center for Brain Imaging

The Rochester Center for Brain Imaging is a 3T MRI facility for structural and functional imaging of the brain.

Sign Language Research Center

The Sign Language Research Center focuses on studying the structure, acquisition, development and evolution of signed languages around the world.

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